About
Jay Chooi is a computer scientist and statistician educated at Harvard with a background in AI evaluation and safety research. He has held positions at the Machine Learning for Alignment Tooling Summer, the UK AI Security Institute, and contributed to the UK government's Inspect Evals framework; he is now founder and CEO of Robocurve, where he focuses on frontier AI evaluation and forecasting.
Founder at RobocurveYC S26
Intro paths
YC
Jay went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Robocurve's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Jay can intro founders to Robocurve's investors below.
Robocurve's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at Robocurve
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Aris ZhuFounder
Experience
- RobocurveCo-Foundercurrent2026 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- MATS ResearchResearch Fellowcurrent2026 β present
- Harvard UniversityTeaching Fellow2023 β 2026Cambridge, MA
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)AI/ML Software Engineering Intern2025Seattle, WA
- AI Security InstituteResearcher2025London Area, United Kingdom
- Supervised Program for Alignment ResearchResearch Fellow2025
- AI Security InstituteTechnical Contractor2025
- Department of Economics, Harvard UniversityResearch Assistant2024Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Kempner Institute at Harvard UniversityUndergraduate Research Fellow2024Cambridge, MA
- Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & SmithsonianStudent Researcher2023Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Ministry of Finance MalaysiaPro bono Consultant (Govtech Nucleus Unit)2023
- Khazanah Research InstitutePolicy Research Intern2023Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Skills & more
PyTorchAWS Step FunctionsAWS CloudFormationAWS LambdaAmazon Web Services (AWS)Python (Programming Language)2R (Programming Language)PostgreSQLC++3pandasHTMLJavaScript
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DjangoFirebaseslurmKotlinAngularTailwind CSSGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)qgisResearch SkillsData StructuresAlgorithmsLinear AlgebraLanguages Chinese Β· Malay
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jay Chooi?
- Jay Chooi is a computer scientist and statistician educated at Harvard with a background in AI evaluation and safety research. He has held positions at the Machine Learning for Alignment Tooling Summer, the UK AI Security Institute, and contributed to the UK government's Inspect Evals framework; he is now founder and CEO of Robocurve, where he focuses on frontier AI evaluation and forecasting.
- Where does Jay Chooi work?
- Jay Chooi is Founder of Robocurve.
- What companies did Jay Chooi found?
- Jay Chooi founded Robocurve.
- Where did Jay Chooi go to school?
- Jay Chooi studied at Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Master of Arts - MA, Statistics); Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Mathematics); Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar (KTJ) (A Levels, Physics).
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Shared employers
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